I'd like to ... have a way to connect tools to members and datasets

[jhpoelen]

The Open Trait Network currently maintains a membership registry and a list of datasets. The membership registry https://opentraits.org/members help to find folks involved, or have an interest, in trait-based research. The datasets list https://opentraits.org/datasets provides access to existing trait datasets to help facilitate access to data.

Just like a hammer is an essential tool to a carpenter, informatics tools (e.g., excel, open office calc, google sheets, mysql, sqlite), compute environments (e.g., R, Python) and publication platforms (e.g., https://zenodo.org, https://figshare.com, https://dataone.org) are essential for people (e.g., https://opentraits.org/members/rachael-v-gallagher, http://opentraits.org/members/dylan-craven) for help create, transform, and publish datasets (e.g., https://opentraits.org/datasets/bien, http://opentraits.org/datasets/coral-traits) .

While datasets are created by specific people using specific tools, no clear people-tool or tool-dataset relations are kept on OTN. Introducing such a relation would potentially help folks find examples of datasets created with specific tools, find folks specializing in specific tools, or find commonly used tools.

I'd like to suggest to:

1. add a tools registry, using information from user profiles, dataset descriptions and entries in the https://opentraits.org/resources
2. create links between datasets and the tools used to create/keep/transform them
3. create links between people and the tools they use
4. for each tool, link to an external definition (e.g., wikidata page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q206904) and add one if no such definition exist
5. share competency queries in various environments (e.g., R, Wikidata SparQL) to demonstrate how to find specific relations in the existing people-dataset-tool relations
6. present and review a prototype at the upcoming open trait workshop in Leipzig 8-11 Aug 2022 (or 2022-08-08/11) .

Curious to hear your thoughts!

fyi @Daniel-Mietchen

[bmaitner]

This is a really interesting idea and I can absolutely see the value. So then the idea is just to add some additional metadata to the existing entries? That seems fairly straightforward and not too difficult. I'm in favor of this :)

[Daniel-Mietchen]

I also like these ideas and am particularly interested in these relationships finding their way into Wikidata, so as to inform relevant Scholia profiles (using queries as per your point 5 above) like

• https://scholia.toolforge.org/use/Q326489 (i.e. the use profile for the item ggplot2 (Q326489)) or
• the topic profile for phenotypic plasticity (Q295130), as per https://scholia.toolforge.org/topic/Q295130 .

I also tried to find information about that workshop but no luck so far - would appreciate pointers.

[jhpoelen]

@bmaitner thanks for sharing your notes. You could add additional metadata to the existing entries (e.g., people, datasets), and we'd have to see how easy it would be to search by tools.

@Daniel-Mietchen some pointers to the workshop - @iimog is co-organizing it, together with @chiras and others. https://www.idiv.de/en/sdiv.html is hosting. The registration page is at https://umfrage.uni-leipzig.de/index.php/169594 (registration closed on May 23rd officially).https://www.idiv.de/en/sdiv/meeting_calendar.html includes a sparsely populated entry on the sDivTrait II workshop. Perhaps the organizers can share more pointers.

[jhpoelen]

Just added my orcid/ wikidata entry to #177, and hoping to use that link to somehow get connected to my publications to the tools that are mentioned in these publications.

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Based on some incomplete mapping of OTN members to Wikidata, we now have a first Scholia profile for OTN as an organization: https://scholia.toolforge.org/organization/Q112326635 . I am embedding a first screenshot below:

[jhpoelen]

@Daniel-Mietchen wow! that is pretty neat. From the network graph, I can already tell that the OTN network is not just a random collection of folks, but a group of people that already have co-authored publications.

[jhpoelen]

Using @Daniel-Mietchen 's work on linking researchers, their publications and research networks on Wikidata, I've populated a (as of now hidden) OTN publications page -

https://opentraits.org/publications

This page contains a list of 858 publications of a subset of OTN members that are known to wikidata. See attached screenshot below.

@open-traits-network/editors and others - curious to hear your thought on creating a helpful list of publications by OTN members.